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The Week in English: Week 3
English IV
09/08: Journals; Research Techniques Lesson; MLA format lesson; Vocab Assignment
Homework: Vocabulary Homework Week 3; Read pp. 76-82
09/09: Journals; MLA format quiz; Vocab check; Media Center Trip
Homework: 76-82
09/10: Journals Due; MLA format quiz; Vocabulary Review; Loose ends on Beowulf; Beowulf film completion
Homework: 76-82
09/11: Journals; Vocabulary Quiz; Venerable Bede writing study
Homework: continue research
English 3:
09/08: Journals; Research Techniques Lesson; MLA format lesson
Homework: Finish TSL
09/09: Journals; Vocabulary check; Loose ends on TSL; Crucible Text Assignment
Homework: Read The Crucible Act I by 09/14
09/10: Journals Due; TSL Test
09/11: Journals; Vocabulary Test; Intro to Salem Witch Trials and McCarthyism
09/08: Journals; Research Techniques Lesson; MLA format lesson; Vocab Assignment
Homework: Vocabulary Homework Week 3; Read pp. 76-82
09/09: Journals; MLA format quiz; Vocab check; Media Center Trip
Homework: 76-82
09/10: Journals Due; MLA format quiz; Vocabulary Review; Loose ends on Beowulf; Beowulf film completion
Homework: 76-82
09/11: Journals; Vocabulary Quiz; Venerable Bede writing study
Homework: continue research
English 3:
09/08: Journals; Research Techniques Lesson; MLA format lesson
Homework: Finish TSL
09/09: Journals; Vocabulary check; Loose ends on TSL; Crucible Text Assignment
Homework: Read The Crucible Act I by 09/14
09/10: Journals Due; TSL Test
09/11: Journals; Vocabulary Test; Intro to Salem Witch Trials and McCarthyism
English 3 Research Paper Assignment
You must submit a term paper that counts as a second-term test grade. The object of the final paper is to get you to think about how your high school experience compares with the "real world.” Using what you know, write a 4 to 6 page paper on a topic of your choice. The topic must be related to your post-high school interests, but there are no other limitations. My suggestion is to take a specific issue or question that you have encountered and conduct further research on it. For example, if you are interested in the public defender's office, looking at whether poor clients accused of minor crimes are given adequate legal services is an appropriate topic. You would go about doing this paper by doing some outside research on the public defender system and then relating your experiences to this research. The best way to approach this paper is to begin with a question, and answer it after researching the topic.
You are encouraged to make explicit links between classes you have taken here at Northwood, although the paper itself may not be from another class. Also, this paper should not be a simple description of what you have done in a class; this is a research paper, and it should deal with academic subjects.
You must decide on your research question by our _______________________ class meeting. Please bring a typed copy of your research question. I will collect these, and we will discuss them in class. If you have any questions or are unsure about the topic, please don’t hesitate to come see me to discuss options.
Paper mechanics:
1. You must include four “outside" sources, such as books and articles from academic journals. These can be materials that were assigned in other classes, or you can do additional library research. At least one of your academic citations must be a book or academic journal article. In other words, you cannot have four websites as your four citations. Be sure to make appropriate citations on all works cited, using MLA. Your citations should be attached to your paper. Reminder: You must give me four academic citations by _________________________________.
2. The paper should be 4-6 pages long (this is a minimum of 4 FULL pages, not “three and a line”).
3. Your paper must be typed, double-spaced, in 12-point Times New Roman or similar font. It should follow all normal essay writing requirements (i.e., be sure to have a thesis statement and supporting evidence).
4. Due: ____________________________ at 3:00pm. I will be in my classroom (917) to collect these. If you'd like to turn it in early, by all means do so. I will not be able to read late papers in time to give you a grade.
You are encouraged to make explicit links between classes you have taken here at Northwood, although the paper itself may not be from another class. Also, this paper should not be a simple description of what you have done in a class; this is a research paper, and it should deal with academic subjects.
You must decide on your research question by our _______________________ class meeting. Please bring a typed copy of your research question. I will collect these, and we will discuss them in class. If you have any questions or are unsure about the topic, please don’t hesitate to come see me to discuss options.
Paper mechanics:
1. You must include four “outside" sources, such as books and articles from academic journals. These can be materials that were assigned in other classes, or you can do additional library research. At least one of your academic citations must be a book or academic journal article. In other words, you cannot have four websites as your four citations. Be sure to make appropriate citations on all works cited, using MLA. Your citations should be attached to your paper. Reminder: You must give me four academic citations by _________________________________.
2. The paper should be 4-6 pages long (this is a minimum of 4 FULL pages, not “three and a line”).
3. Your paper must be typed, double-spaced, in 12-point Times New Roman or similar font. It should follow all normal essay writing requirements (i.e., be sure to have a thesis statement and supporting evidence).
4. Due: ____________________________ at 3:00pm. I will be in my classroom (917) to collect these. If you'd like to turn it in early, by all means do so. I will not be able to read late papers in time to give you a grade.
MLA Laptop Lesson
Go to the web site listed below to answer the questions on this handout. You will want to bookmark the site on the ibooks, and you should also make note of the site for your own future use. This is absolutely the most helpful and comprehensive tool for writing that I have ever seen. Thanks, Purdue!
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/research/r_mla.html
1. What are the correct margins for a paper?
2. Do you include a title page for your paper?
3. What information is at the top left corner of the first page?
4. Is the title of your own paper underlined?
5. What words will be at the top of your Works Cited page?
6. Are they underlined?
7. Does the author’s name always have to appear in the parentheses when you use parenthetical citation?
8. Explain the rules for deciding whether the author’s name will be in the parentheses.
9. When you use direct quotations in a paper, are the parentheses for the citation inside the quotation marks?
10. What about the period at the end of a sentence, or a comma? Where are they – before or after the parentheses?
11. When is a quotation indented?
12. Do you use quotation marks for indented quotations?
13. Are indented quotations single- or double-spaced?
14. Are entries on the Works Cited page single- or double-spaced between entries? Within entries?
15. How are the entries on the WC page arranged?
16. Are book/selection titles on the WC page underlined, italicized, or put in quotations?
17. How is an author’s name recorded?
18. On your own paper, create Works Cited entries for your edition of Beowulf and John Gardner’s Grendel. You will want to scroll down the page to see what information you need, and the correct format.
When you are finished with these questions and your two WC entries, go to the Diana Hacker web site.
http://dianahacker.com/resdoc/p04_c08_o.html
This part of the site is specific to writing about the humanities, including literature.
Click on Manuscript Format
1. Where does Hacker tell you to put the page number?
2. What other information should be with the page number?
3. What are the margins?
Go to MLA in-text documentation.
1. What is the best way to indicate the author of a quote?
2. What is an alternate method?
3. How do you attribute an unknown author’s work?
4. How do you typically cite a work from an anthology?
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/research/r_mla.html
1. What are the correct margins for a paper?
2. Do you include a title page for your paper?
3. What information is at the top left corner of the first page?
4. Is the title of your own paper underlined?
5. What words will be at the top of your Works Cited page?
6. Are they underlined?
7. Does the author’s name always have to appear in the parentheses when you use parenthetical citation?
8. Explain the rules for deciding whether the author’s name will be in the parentheses.
9. When you use direct quotations in a paper, are the parentheses for the citation inside the quotation marks?
10. What about the period at the end of a sentence, or a comma? Where are they – before or after the parentheses?
11. When is a quotation indented?
12. Do you use quotation marks for indented quotations?
13. Are indented quotations single- or double-spaced?
14. Are entries on the Works Cited page single- or double-spaced between entries? Within entries?
15. How are the entries on the WC page arranged?
16. Are book/selection titles on the WC page underlined, italicized, or put in quotations?
17. How is an author’s name recorded?
18. On your own paper, create Works Cited entries for your edition of Beowulf and John Gardner’s Grendel. You will want to scroll down the page to see what information you need, and the correct format.
When you are finished with these questions and your two WC entries, go to the Diana Hacker web site.
http://dianahacker.com/resdoc/p04_c08_o.html
This part of the site is specific to writing about the humanities, including literature.
Click on Manuscript Format
1. Where does Hacker tell you to put the page number?
2. What other information should be with the page number?
3. What are the margins?
Go to MLA in-text documentation.
1. What is the best way to indicate the author of a quote?
2. What is an alternate method?
3. How do you attribute an unknown author’s work?
4. How do you typically cite a work from an anthology?
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